Hi everyone, I tune pianos for two school districts, and the one is a new one I acquired this past fall. I tuned a Henry F Miller grand an oldie for their middle school back in December. I received a call that the piano sounded out of tune or the tuning was off. The secretary of course couldn't go into detail because this information was second hand. I didn't speak with the music teacher directly who brought this to her attention. So here's my dilema. I can go back and check it out and retune it if in fact it needs it, but the secretary informed me that they wouldn't pay for an additional tuning. So I either have to save my reputation and do it for nothing if in fact it needs a tuning, or tell them no I won't tune it for free. So has this hapened to anyone, a piano's tuning drifting in such a short time? Is it me or this old piano? How does one truly know who's at fault, and how do you convince a school that it's the piano and not me. I told the secretary that this is something unusual, and that I typically get compliments on how long my tunings stay. I have this overwhelming need to save my hide/reputation, and I feel worried that my career is being hurt. How do you guys handle this flood of emotional uncertainity when y our skills are being challenged? I know I was trained well. I know I pour a lot into every piano I tune. How can I be assured that it's the piano in this case? Thanks Marshall Marshall Gisondi Piano Technician Marshall's Piano Service pianotune05 at hotmail.com 215-510-9400 www.phillytuner.com Graduate of The School of Piano Technology for the Blind www.pianotuningschool.org Vancouver, WA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20120110/6167f952/attachment.htm>
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